Catherine McAuley Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.
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The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.
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I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest?
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It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
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Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.
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singing the song her therapist told her to improvise in order to 'let her anxieties out' If I keep the kitchen floor clean, no one will die!
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To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.
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I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.
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That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
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God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
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I love my work. It's been good to me.
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Our hearts can always be in the same place, centered on God.
